Chocolate cake with extra special taste

Replace a cup of white sugar with a cup of brown sugar next time you bake chocolate cake – it gives extra special taste.

Crystallised flowers

Pick and dry some beautiful flowers, e.g. lilac, violets or roses. Dip or paint them with pasteurised egg white, then dip them in sugar. Leave the flowers to dry on a grate. You can use the flowers to decorate cakes, tarts, confectionery and desserts.

Sugar gives crispy biscuits

If you cut back on sugar in biscuits, they become softer. Plenty of sugar gives crispy, harder biscuits.